You and your equipment seem way too lightning prone. I think I'll keep my distance. I'm in Oregon -- please warn me if you plan on bringing lightning this way ;-)On 03/12/07 21:32, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip]I've had two laptops. Once clone died when my house got hit by lightening while I was using it. I figure induction from thecurrent in the metal roof fried the display. The ThinkPad fried itself when the tent I was in got hit by lightning. If they hadn't been laptops, I may have been able to replace individual components (e.g. screen or power supply) simply.
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